Literary Hub - Lit Hub Daily: April 2, 2021

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“Our letters are a closeness we can keep.” Jackie Polzin on writing letters to her grandfather during COVID, and the joys of slow correspondence. | Lit Hub

INTERVIEW WITH AN INDIE PRESS: Coffee House staffers talk publishing outside the margins, launching the Coffee House Writers Project, and how they really, really want you to get in touch. | Lit Hub

Edward Hirsch gives a close reading of Robert Hayden’s poem “The Whipping,” a refusal to sentimentalize the past. | Lit Hub Poetry

On American Pastoral’s Merry Levov, American literary fiction’s peerless female stutterer, and what we lose by singular representation. | Lit Hub Criticism

“Everyone who digs through the archaeological site of their own addiction has to do so a few square inches at a time.” Steven Wingate on the addict as archaeologist. | Lit Hub 

A conversation between Katy Derbyshire and Ayça Türkoğlu, about their
15-year translation project to bring Selim Özdoğan’s The Blacksmith’s Daughter into English for the first time. | Lit Hub Translation

Erica Robuk on five fearless female spies and resistors who fought the Nazis. | CrimeReads

Kaitlyn Greenidge’s Libertie, Sharon Stone’s The Beauty of Living Twice, and Melissa Febos’ Girlhood all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

“America has ruined the name Bich for me, and I have let it.” Beth Nguyen on anti-Asian racism, violence, and the space afforded by choosing a new name. | The New Yorker

Lynn Novick and Ken Burns discuss their new documentary series about Hemingway, and the work of re-evaluating our icons. | The New York Times

Think you might have one great song in you? Maybe you should read Jeff Tweedy’s new book, How to Write One Song. | Los Angeles Review of Books

“The tragedy in Baartman’s story makes people slow to recognize her as a body-positive heroine.” Shayla Lawson on body image and Saartjie Baartman. | Bustle

Lucille Clifton, Mark Doty, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Rita Dove... Jill Krementz digs into her photo archive in honor of Poetry Month. | New York Social Diary

“Vonnegut and Everett, even if commodifying art through disparate philosophies, would never expect their work to function in a vacuum.”
On abstraction and legacy in Bluebeard and So Much Blue. | Ploughshares

“One will find works inspired by family histories, captivating tribal myths, tales imbued with intense spirituality, ecological intimacy, painful historical awareness, and a fantastically broad emotional palette.” André Naffis-Sahely explores a new anthology of Native Nations poetry. | Poetry Foundation

“Often, when you’re writing novels, you’re not only writing toward things. You’re also pushing against them as you’re working.” Lauren Groff on religion, individualism, and writing her new book. | ELLE

Tobey Pearl talks to Andrew Keen about colonial violence and

America’s first murder trial, on Keen On.

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How do you write a woman back into history? Introducing Book Dreams,
a new podcast for everyone who loves and misses English class. 

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On New Books Network, a conversation with the tenacious Sari Rosenblatt,
who published her first book over 30 years post-MFA.

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